Thursday, March 1, 2012

aware

Many Lyme patients can suffer heart complications related to Lyme&Co. Therefore, it's important to pay attention to symptoms and let your doctor know even if you have the slightest of heart symptoms.

I've had little ones all of my life. As I've gone through treatment, I've experienced more. My LLMD has been keeping a close watch on these things but as you know, over the holidays I was hospitalized for some chest pain and pressure. While all the tests were normal, my LLMD wanted one last test to just rule out any sort of problem - a nuclear stress test. This that test where you get injected with an isotope and get a pic of your heart then wait and walk on a treadmill for 10 minutes and get injected with another isotope and then get another pic of your heart. I did it last week.

OH MY -- the treadmill workout was more exercise than I've done at one time in more than 2 years. I had to lay in bed all weekend (not to mention the added awfulness of having a virus show up the next day). And then my cardiologist wanted me to wear a Holter monitor for 24 hours after to also just make sure nothing funny is going on.

Tomorrow I get my results and I fully expect them to be normal (both the nuclear stress test and the Holter monitor). But I thought I'd write this to send out the word to not take heart symptoms for granted just because you have all this other stuff going on in your body. It's definitely better to be safe than sorry.

How do you feel today?

I feel like one of those handy-dandy magnets you see on people's fridges that have 9 different faces looking back to you and depending on your mood you can put the little frame around "Happy" or "Silly" or "Angry". Only instead of moods, each day I decide varying degrees of physical feelings I am experiencing because of LYME DISEASE. For some reason blogging them helps.

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